{"id":430,"date":"2015-02-24T06:14:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T06:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=430"},"modified":"2015-11-24T22:40:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T22:40:30","slug":"cyber-attacks-against-the-u-s-government-july-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/cyber-attacks-against-the-u-s-government-july-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber Attacks Against the U.S. Government &#8211; July 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The July 2009 cyber attacks were a series of coordinated cyber attacks against major government, news media, and financial websites in South Korea and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks involved the activation of a botnet\u2014a large number of hijacked computers\u2014that maliciously accessed targeted websites with the intention of causing their servers to overload due to the influx of traffic, known as a DDoS attack.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the hijacked computers were located in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The estimated number of the hijacked computers varies widely; around 20,000 according to the South Korean National Intelligence Service, around 50,000 according to Symantec&#8217;s Security Technology Response group, and more than 166,000 according to a Vietnamese computer security researcher who analyzed the log files of the two servers the attackers controlled.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documents\/ADA355539.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/defenseissues\/cyberattack.pdf\">Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Documents relating to this incident<\/a> [ 25 Pages, 1.13MB ]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documents\/ADA355539.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/defenseissues\/StateDept-CyberAttackJuly2009.pdf\">Department of State Documents relating to this incident<\/a>\u00a0[ 322\u00a0Pages, 14.16MB ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The July 2009 cyber attacks were a series of coordinated cyber attacks against major government, news media, and financial websites in South Korea and the United States. 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